Clothes-frame



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ASA GREENVOOD, OF TOULON, ILLINOIS.

CLOTHES-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 29,163, dated July 17, 1860.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, AsA GREENWOOD, of Toulon, in the county of Stark and State of Illinois, have invented an Improved Clothes- Drier; and I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l, is a top view; Fig. 2, a side elevation, Fig. 3, a bottom View, and Fig. 4, a longitudinal section of it in an unfolded state. Fig. 5, represents it as folded.

In such drawings, A, exhibits a rod or pole provided with a hub or cap B, and a slider C. A series of radial arms (D, D, D,) is connected to the cap B, each arm being hinged to the cap so as to be capable of being turned through a quadrant of a circle and either into parallelism with or at a right angle to the pole A. Another series of such arms (E, E, E,) is similarly applied to the slider C, which is so adapted to the pole, A, as to be capable of being moved thereon, both toward and away from the cap or hub B which is stationary on the pole. Each arm E, is in the plane of or placed directly under some one 0f the arms D, and the two are jointed at or near their outer ends to one of a series of bars F, F` F, which are parallel with each other Cords G, G, are arranged and the pole.

at suitable distances apart and stretched from bar to bar of the series last named. Furthermore, other cords, H, H, H, are stretched from bar to bar of the lower series of radial bars, such cords being for the purpose of supporting articles of clothing or such articles as may be suspended from the clothes drier for the purpose of being dried, after having been wet or washed.

By drawing the slider downward on the pole, the whole apparatus may be folded into the compact state shown in Fig. 5. When unfolded as exhibited in the other iigures, the whole apparatus constitutes an improved contriva-nce, usually termed a clothes-drier.

I do not claim combining and arranging two series of bars together and with a pole its head and slider as exhibited in the United States Patent No. 20,964..

I claim The combination and arrangement of two sets of radial arms (D, D, D, E, E, E,) and one set of arallel bars (F, F, F,) together and with tie pole A, stationary cap B, and slider C, substantially as specified.

ASA GREENWOOD.

Witnesses ELIJAH S. BRoDHEaD, E. L. EMRY. 

